Featured Events

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa will give the lecture "A Buddhist Perspective: Gender, the Environment and Activism" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, in the Princeton University Chapel. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.Â Tickets will be available at the Frist Campus Center Ticketing Office for Princeton University students beginning at noon Wednesday, March 25, and for Princeton faculty and staff beginning at noon Thursday, March 26. Tickets for the general public will be available online beginning at noon Friday, March 27. The event is sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and the Princeton Environmental Institute. For more information, email HHK@princeton.edu.

Monica Miller of Barnard College and Tanisha Ford, a visiting research scholar with the Center for African American Studies, will give a public conversation "Sartorial Black: Gender and Fashion in the Diaspora" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in Stanhope Hall, Room 201. The event is cosponsored by the Department of English and the Center for African American Studies.

Filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburg, a visiting lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies, will screen her feature documentary "Wretches and Jabberers" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in McCormick Hall, Room 101. The documentary chronicles the world travels of disability rights advocates Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette — who were diagnosed with autism as children — and is a quest to change attitudes about the intelligence and abilities of people with autism. Thresher and Bissonnette will be at the event.

Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, will speak about "Celebrating Diversity Through Culture Competency" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in McCosh Hall, Room 10. Davuluri is the first Indian American winner of the Miss America pageant and she will speak about her experiences with the pageant, "effortless perfection," women's representation in STEM fields and her initiative "Celebrating Diversity Through Cultural Competency." She is the keynote speaker for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month sponsored by the University's Carl Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.

Roy Mottahedeh, the Gurney Professor of History at Harvard University, will speak on "Ghaznavid Panegyrics as Historical Source," at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in Room 102, Jones Hall. Mottahedeh has written extensively on the history of the Middle East in the 10th and 11th centuries C.E. His publications include "Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society," "The Mantle of the Prophet" and "Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence."Â Â

Friday through Sunday, March 27-29, and Thursday through Saturday, April 2-4, various times
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Murray Dodge Theatre

Theatre Intime will present the annual Student Playwrights Festival at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, Thursday through Saturday, April 2-4, in Murray Dodge Theatre. Two matinees will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 29, and Saturday, April 4. For tickets, call University Ticketing at 609-258-9220.

The Program in Visual Arts will present "Black Balance," an exhibition of large-format photographs by senior Amber Stewart in the Lucas Gallery from March 30 through April 3. An opening reception will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 1.

March 30 through April 24, 2015
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James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery, Butler College

The exhibit "UnrulyArt: The Creativity of Exceptional Children" will be on view from Monday, March 30 through Friday, April 24, in the James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery located in the lower level of Butler College's Yoseloff Hall. The works in the exhibit were created by children with visual impairments, autism, Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities. An opening reception will be held in the gallery at 7 p.m. March 30.

The exhibition "Versailles on Paper," on view Feb. 13-July 19 in the main gallery of Firestone Library, documents the contemporary representation of Versailles through a multifaceted array of prints, books, maps, medals and manuscripts. It highlights in particular those elements that today survive only on paper, including unusual and surprising glimpses into a largely lost world. All the books and prints on display were created in the 17th and 18th centuries. With only a few exceptions, they were selected from the holdings of Firestone and Marquand libraries, acquired over the past 140 years.

The exhibition "The City Lost and Found: New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, 1960-1980" will be on view Feb. 21-June 7 at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition — which brings together works by major artists such as Ed Ruscha and Garry Winogrand with newly rediscovered projects — explores photographic and cinematic responses to the changing fabric of these major metropolitan areas that contributed to the focus on cities in popular media and urban policy during this period. Several lectures, events and film screenings will take place in conjunction with the exhibition.